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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999

Figures for 1999, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999 covers 75 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.7825; Eritrea is lowest, at 0.1528. The middle country reads 0.8964. Against 1992, 33 values changed (30 up, 3 down), 42 countries joined, 18 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 1999

HighestQatar

1.7825

LowestEritrea

0.1528

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. 1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 75 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1SamoaWSMPolynesia0.9889
2GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.0311
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa1.0325
4KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia0.9643
5TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa0.9623
6LibyaLBYNorthern Africa1.0385
7MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia1.0468
8LebanonLBNWestern Asia1.0564
9SudanSDNNorthern Africa1.0857
10EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.8964
11KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.1098
12BotswanaBWASouthern Africa0.8835
13UkraineUKREastern Europe1.1316
14PalestinePSEWestern Asia0.8661
15El SalvadorSLVCentral America1.1452
16ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia1.1481
17MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.8505
18MauritiusMUSEastern Africa0.8505
19UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia0.8455
20ArubaABWCaribbean1.1555
21IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia0.8401
22CubaCUBCaribbean1.1698
23North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe1.1752
24IranIRNSouthern Asia0.7974
25PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia1.2236

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 72Qatar1.7825
  2. 60British Virgin Islands1.5885
  3. 58Barbados1.5645
  4. 57Kuwait1.5559
  5. 55Brunei1.5502

Lowest

  1. 75Eritrea0.1528
  2. 74Central African Republic0.1945
  3. 73Mauritania0.2130
  4. 71Ethiopia0.2323
  5. 70Liberia0.2350

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.8964. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031992 → 1999

Since 1992

What changed between 1992 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +42 / −18countries joined / left
  • 33values changed, of 33 in both
  • 30 · 3rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Aruba+ Angola+ Argentina+ Bangladesh+ Belarus+ Bhutan+ Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Eritrea+ Ethiopia+ Gabon+ Georgia+ Gambia+ Indonesia+ Iran+ Iraq+ Kazakhstan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Laos+ Liberia+ Madagascar+ Mongolia+ Mauritius+ Malaysia+ Nigeria+ Panama+ Papua New Guinea+ Paraguay+ Palestine+ Sudan+ El Salvador+ Thailand+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Ukraine+ Uruguay+ United States+ Uzbekistan+ British Virgin Islands+ Vietnam+ Samoa+ Zambia− Dominica− Ghana− Guinea− Jordan− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Myanmar− Mozambique− Nicaragua− Oman− Pakistan− French Polynesia− Russia− Senegal− Syria− Togo− United States Virgin Islands− South Africa− Zimbabwe

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 75 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (1999). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/1999

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999?

Qatar, at 1.7825, of the 75 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999 cover?

75.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1999 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2024.

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